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I updated my Video Card from a Radeon 7500 to a Radeon 9200, and I am quite impressed with how it handles my 3D games. However, I still can not play Doom 3. Because of this I have been trying to install the legacy ATI FGLRX 8.28.8 Legacy drivers, the newest that work with my Card. I have had no luck or success.

My question is this, How do I install the ATI FGLRX 8.28.8 Legacy Driver on Fedora 7 Linux?

PLEASE DO NOT RESPONSE GET A NIVIDA. THAT IS NOT HELPFUL TO MY CURRENT PROBLEM.

Then open an xterm or console session as root from where the downloaded file resides type;

sh ati-driver-installer-8.28.8.run
aticonfig --initial

When done restart the system. See the Installer Instructions at the site list above for complete details.
You will need to do the first step (the sh command) after each kernel update but it only takes a couple of minutes.

Radeon 9200, R2xx GPU. Well supported by Xorg open-source driver. Give it a shot. Should be available from your distro repo, maybe even it is already in your system (some Xorg installs come with all possible drivers). In this case just replace fglrx with radeon in your xorg.conf.

Radeon 9200, R2xx GPU. Well supported by Xorg open-source driver. Give it a shot. Should be available from your distro repo, maybe even it is already in your system (some Xorg installs come with all possible drivers). In this case just replace fglrx with radeon in your xorg.conf.

I am using the Open Source Radeon driver, but as I said it can not play Doom 3. I want fglrx for 3D acceleration.

From everything I can find, you will not be able to use the ATI 8.28.8 driver with Fedora 7, as it just to old to work with the Xorg-1.3.0 as supplied by the fine folks at Fedora. According to some the supplied radeon driver should be OK for most needs, and some report that by using a custom vanilla kernel works better for 'gaming' when the proper radeon support is configured in.

Try the system-config-display command once more;

system-config-display --reconfig --set-driver=ati --set-depth=24

And here is an example xorg.conf file to try or to use as a comparison;

And I got the Doom 3 Demo working! I copied libGL.so.1 and libGL.so.1.2 from fgrlx to the Doom 3 directory. Then you load up doom.x86 (doom3-demo gives me an error). It runs very slowly though, and every sound sounds like a robot. But it displays fine.